A New Volume of Perfect Words
M. David Litwa’s Hermetica II
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21750405 |
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| Authors | Dylan M Burns (0000-0002-0391-9077, Amsterdam University of the Arts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 271-278 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Aries (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1567-9896 • E-ISSN: 1570-0593 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700593-02102003 |
| OpenAlex | W3179138658 |
| Language | EN |
The main impetus for this book is the absence of an up-to-date English translation of significant materials, mostly pertaining to 'philosophical Hermetica'-philosophically-inclined literature of Roman and late antiquity that features the Hellenistic Egyptian culture-hero Hermes Trismegistus ("thricegreatest")-that are not found in Brian Copenhaver's celebrated 1992 Cambridge translation of the Corpus Hermeticum and Latin Asclepius.1 The mate-1
Art · HERO · History of religions · Intellectual history · Linguistics · Literature · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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